‘BJP’s Gabbar Singh Tax’; How Not To Calculate GDP Growth

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Social media was once abuzz on Sunday night with a observation that Hasmukh Adhia, the income secretary, had given made in an interview to the Press Accept as true with of India in regards to the Items and Products and services Tax. What is all of it about? Vivek Kaul explains.

Mersal isn’t a petty political quarrel, however a logo of Tamil resistance to top-down nationalism that has little relevance to the state. And it’s been an unequivocal development for the reason that anti-Hindi agitations within the 1930s, 40s and the 60s. G Pramod Kumar weighs in on the newest controversy in Tamil Nadu.

In a pointy research of the fresh political ways in Gujarat, Radhika Ramasehan explains why Top Minister Narendra Modi, and the BJP as an entire, are determined to restore the Hindu Hriday Samrat technique forward of the polls within the state.

An afternoon after Earnings Secretary Hasmukh Adhia stated the Items and Products and services Tax calls for a significant rejig, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi stepped up assaults on Top Minister Narendra Modi and dubbed the GST as “BJP’s Gabbar Singh Tax”, in a rally in Gujarat.

In a shift of gears, the Modi executive on Monday introduced the restart of a frozen political dialogue in Jammu & Kashmir, with former Intelligence Bureau leader Dineshwar Sharma because the interlocutor, which can come with separatist the Hurriyat conglomeration if its leaders are able to engagement with the Centre.

The Ultimate Court docket has indicated that it’ll change the phrase “shall” with “would possibly” within the 2016 order, through which taking part in of the national anthem was made mandatory at cinema halls prior to the screening of any film throughout India.

The Ultimate Court docket expressed surprise over the re-employment of policemen and medical doctors convicted by way of the Bombay Top Court docket of suppressing and tampering with proof within the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case, and sought solutions from the Gujarat executive.

Tens of hundreds of would-be schoolteachers had been left within the lurch with the Central Teacher Eligibility Test, in most cases held two times a 12 months, now not being performed in any respect this 12 months on account of a pending pointers revision.

Just about 100 Indian H-1B visa holders and their dependents reached out to US lawmakers on Monday to plead for the clearance of the huge backlog of green card petitions. The United States problems one million inexperienced playing cards yearly.

“BJP’s misreading of historical past raises questions at the Indian state’s talent to be a custodian for the country’s ancient websites, together with Mughal monuments,” writes historian Audrey Truschke in The Indian Express.

For the reason that manner of GDP calculation treats environmental injury prices as source of revenue, L Venkatachalam gives an alternative view to financial expansion in India in The Hindu.